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What Would Machiavelli Tell the Bail Profession? Four Lessons on Survival, Strategy, Influence, and Legacy

What Would Machiavelli Tell the Bail Profession?Five centuries after Niccolò Machiavelli wrote about power, perception, alliances, and survival, his lessons raise uncomfortable questions for professional surety bail. Niccolò Machiavelli died nearly five hundred years ago, long before television, social media, political action committees, professional associations, or the modern American

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Machiavelli’s Third Lesson: Bail Cannot Stand Alone

The first two discussions focused on recognizing the political environment around professional surety bail and building the capacity to operate within it. The next step is influence—and influence depends on whether the profession can make itself useful beyond its own interests. Professional surety bail operates inside a much larger

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Machiavelli’s Answer: Stop Complaining About the Battlefield

Recognizing the forces surrounding professional surety bail is only the beginning. The harder question is whether the profession has built the capacity to do anything about them. In the first discussion, What Would Machiavelli Tell the Bail Profession?, I used Niccolò Machiavelli to examine the political environment surrounding professional surety

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What Would Machiavelli Tell the Bail Profession?

Five centuries after Niccolò Machiavelli wrote about power, perception, alliances, and survival, his lessons raise uncomfortable questions for professional surety bail. Niccolò Machiavelli died nearly five hundred years ago, long before television, social media, political action committees, professional associations, or the modern American criminal justice system. He knew nothing about

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The Morning America Changed

Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, the pictures have aged. The memory has not. September 11, 2001, began as an ordinary Tuesday morning, which may be one reason the memory remains so powerful twenty-five years later. People drove to work, children arrived at school, airplanes climbed into clear

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Get Out the Bail Vote in America

Two years of progress are on the ballot this November, and PBUS is leading the effort to protect it from Washington to your hometown Bail is on the ballot this November, whether the candidates say the word or not. Over the past two years the country has moved back toward

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Gas Prices, Political Narratives, and the History We Lived

The price at the pump may be today’s story, but the history behind it did not begin in 2026. When WTOK carried a report this week under the headline “Gas prices hit record highs,” I had no argument with the fact that gasoline is expensive. At roughly $4.15

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The Quiet Work of Liberty: How Bail Professionals Protect Working Families

Behind the political noise is a simpler reality: licensed bail professionals are often the fastest, most personal lifeline for working families facing unexpected arrest. In the heated national debate over bail reform, one perspective is consistently overlooked: the view from the jail parking lot at 2 a.m., from the

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The Numbers Are Already There

In 2023, the Stone County sheriff's runoff came down to 687 votes. A Forrest County supervisor's seat was settled in the primary by 749 votes. In Harrison County, the sheriff was chosen by a margin of 1,520 votes with no opponent waiting in the general.

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When Bail Agents Extend Credit: Helping Families Without Misusing the Bond

Professional surety bail often provides lower-income and marginalized families something rarely discussed in the bail debate: access to credit. For bail agents, however, extending that credit also means understanding where collection ends and the authority of the appearance bond begins. One of the practical advantages of professional surety bail

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The Bail Industry’s Art of the Deal: A Strategic Blueprint for National Reform

The Bail Industry’s Art of the Deal: A Strategic Blueprint for National Reform Why the profession must stop reacting to reform and start writing it — and what seven months of doing exactly that has put on the record. First published January 2026. Updated September 2026. Donald Trump’s The

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American Freedom and the Place of Bail

Why the Founders' fight over liberty and authority still explains what surety bail does Over the past several months, I have written a series examining the ideas that shaped the American system of liberty and government. The subjects have ranged from Thomas Paine, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison,